Electrical Materials

Course title: Electrical Materials

Code: 3ФЕИТ03Л002

Number of credits (ECTS): 3

Weekly number of classes: 2 + 0 + 1 + 0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject:

Course Goals (acquired competencies): Gaining knowledge on different types of materials, their basic properties and possibilities of application. The objective is to get acquainted to the conductive, semi-conductive, dielectric, magnetic and superconductive materials and other special materials with application in electrical engineering and information technologies.

Total available number of classes: 90

Course Syllabus: Introduction to materials science. Electrical and thermal conductivity of the materials. Periodical system of chemical elements. Zone theory and cristals. Conductors-simple model and macrocopic properties. Classification of conductive materials. Application of conductive materials. Semi-conductors, conductance processes and macroscopic properties. Elementary semi-conductors and compounds. Semi-conductors applications. Dielectrics and isolators. Energy losses. Dielectric strenght. Survey and classification of dielectric materials. Applications of dielectric materials. Magnetism, basic terminology. Magnetic hysterezis. Dia-, para- and ferromagnetism. Classification on soft and hard magnetic materials, properties and applications. Materials superconductive characteristics-simple model and macroscopic properties. Application of superconductors. Materials optical properties and applications of optoelectronic materials. Special technologies in electrical engineering and information technolog.

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